Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original.
Description: Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original.
Genres: Documentary
Budget: $0 | Revenue : $0
Runtime: 83 minutes
Mike Nichols: An American Master
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Kneecap
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Settlers
I'm Still Here
You Can't Take It with You
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Jim's Story
Zora Neale Hurston
Played Self (archive footage)
Kim Brockington
Played Zora Neale Hurston
S. Epatha Merkerson
Played Narrator (voice)
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